Urge Assembly focus attention at its forthcoming meeting upon the
dual, vitally urgent obligation: the conservation of the vigor and spiritual
health of the community and the intensification of effort aiming at realization
of recently approved Temple Plan. Sleepless vigilance to ward off
subtle attacks of enemies is first prerequisite to sound unfoldment of the
processes of the enterprise already operating. The fateful forties, pregnant
for weal and woe, are ushered in. The American believers enter them firmly
rooted in the fertile soil of the administrative order and bountifully
nourished by the vital sap of the animation of its institutions, spreading its
sheltering shadow to the farthest corners of the Western Hemisphere. Centenary
of the Birth of the Faith is approaching. Victories unsuspected are within
reach of community. The sooner they are achieved, the sharper the contrast
offered with distracting miseries afflicting a generation which the Faith
alone can and must eventually redeem.
Cablegram January 18, 1940